General Information
===================
-This is GTK+ version 2.9.1. GTK+ is a multi-platform toolkit for
+This is GTK+ version 2.10.2. GTK+ is a multi-platform toolkit for
creating graphical user interfaces. Offering a complete set of widgets,
GTK+ is suitable for projects ranging from small one-off projects to
complete application suites.
Information about mailing lists can be found at
http://www.gtk.org/mailinglists.html
+
Installation
============
See the file 'INSTALL'
+
Release notes for 2.10
======================
reference. Details about floating references can be found in the docs:
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gobject/gobject-The-Base-Object-Type.html#floating-ref
-* Suffixes like (_F) are now stripped from labels when they are displayed
- in toolbars. If this is not wanted, the feature can be suppressed by
- inserting a Unicode control character, e.g ZWNJ.
+* Accelerators like (_F) are now stripped from labels when they are
+ displayed in toolbars. If this is not wanted, the feature can be
+ suppressed by inserting a Unicode control character, e.g ZWNJ.
* The pixbuf theme engine can now customize expanders (in GtkTreeView
and GtkExpander) and resize grips, using the new EXPANDER and
RESIZE_GRIP function values.
-* Dialogs created by gtk_about_dialog_new no longer hide automatically
+* Dialogs created by gtk_about_dialog_new() no longer hide automatically
when the user clicks close. It is the applications responsibility to
hide or destroy the dialog.
objects derived from GtkNotebook are page-reordered, page-removed and
page-added.
-Release notes
-=============
+* Due to the interface changes in the file chooser backend interface,
+ the GTK+ ABI version has been bumped to 2.10.0. Third-party filesystem
+ backends have to be ported to the new interface, other modules, such as
+ theme engines, input method modules or pixbuf loaders have to be rebuilt
+ so that they are installed in the right place for GTK+ to find them.
+
+
+Release notes for 2.8
+=====================
+
+* GTK+ 2.8 and Pango 1.10 require the cairo library.
+
+* The default theme has been renamed to "Raleigh". Existing configurations
+ specifying the "Default" theme name should still work.
+
+* The GtkTreeView::enable-search property has been changed to control
+ only typeahead search, not the C-f keybinding to start an interactive
+ search. To turn off interactive searching completely, you have to
+ set GtkTreeView::search-column to -1.
+
+* The restriction on using the same cell renderer in multiple columns
+ of a GtkTreeView is now more strictly enforced.
+
+* In GTK+ 2.8, GtkCalendar uses nl_langinfo() (if available) to determine
+ the first day of the week. Thus, it is possible to select the first day
+ of the week independently from the language, by setting LC_TIME.
-* GTK+ 2.6 supports clipboard persistency. To make use of this feature,
+* In GTK+ 2.8, the gtk-update-icon-cache utility includes image data
+ in the icon caches, which will make the icon cache files larger than
+ the one produced by GTK+ 2.6. This change will reduce the memory
+ overhead of icon themes at runtime, since all GTK+ applications can
+ share the image data in memory.
+
+* In 2.8, GDK emits GdkEventGrabBroken events when a keyboard or pointer
+ grab is broken. On X11, this can happen if the same application grabs
+ again, or if the window used for the grab becomes unviewable. It happens
+ more often on Win32. Applications which use grabs should pay attention
+ to these events and do the necessary cleanups when the grab is lost.
+* The GIOChannel code for sockets on win32 has been rewritten.
+ Applications who make non-trivial use of GIOChannels on win32 should
+ be watched for possible problems.
+
+* GLib 2.8 uses atomic operations to implement reference counting, thus
+ g_object_ref/unref, g_closure_ref/sink/unref and g_iochannel_ref/unref
+ can be used without locking in multithreaded applications. Note that
+ other modifications, like concurrent setting of properties still require
+ locking.
+
+* g_convert() and related character set conversion functions have been
+ fixed to emit pending shift states and to not cache iconv descriptors
+ across multiple calls, since that is problematic for some encodings.
+ Note that these functions are not suitable for streaming conversions;
+ use g_iconv() to do streaming conversion.
+
+
+Release notes for 2.6
+=====================
+
+* GTK+ 2.6 supports clipboard persistence. To make use of this feature,
a clipboard manager following the specification at
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards/clipboard-manager-spec
must be running. A sample implementation of such a clipboard manager
* Notification on clipboard ownership changes via GdkOwnerChange events
requires the XFIXES X extension. Applications can use the function
- gdk_display_supports_selection_notification() to find out if ownerchip
+ gdk_display_supports_selection_notification() to find out if ownership
change notification is available.
* The icon theme code in GTK+ 2.6 follows the freedesktop.org icon theme
- specification. Setting the XDG_DATA_DIRS environtment variable may be
+ specification. Setting the XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variable may be
necessary if your icons aren't installed in the default location
/usr/share/icons.
see the gtk-update-icon-cache man page or the GTK+ documentation.
* To reduce code size and improve efficiency, GTK+, when compiled
- with the GNU toolchain, has separate internal and external entry
+ with the GNU tool chain, has separate internal and external entry
points for exported functions. The internal names, which begin with
IA__, may be seen when debugging a GTK+ program.
compatibility are provided.
* On Unix, the assumption of GLib and GTK+ by default is that filenames on
- the filesystem are encoded in UTF-8 rather than the encoding of the locale;
+ the file system are encoded in UTF-8 rather than the encoding of the locale;
the GTK+ developers consider that having filenames whose interpretation
depends on the current locale is fundamentally a bad idea.
On Windows, filenames passed to GTK+ should always be in UTF-8, as
in GLib 2.6. This is different than in previous versions of GTK+
- where the system codepage was used. As in GLib, for DLL ABI
+ where the system code page was used. As in GLib, for DLL ABI
stability, applications built against previous versions of GTK+ will
use entry points providing the old semantics.
consideration, and use the gstdio wrappers to access files whose
names have been constructed from strings returned from GTK+ or GLib.
+
How to report bugs
==================
that can be downloaded.
* If the bug was a crash, the exact text that was printed out when the
- crash occured.
+ crash occurred.
* Further information such as stack traces may be useful, but is not
necessary. If you do send a stack trace, and the error is an X error,
it will be more useful if the stacktrace is produced running the test
program with the --sync command line option.
+
Patches
=======
Otherwise, enter a new bug report that describes the patch, and attach
the patch to that bug report.
-Bug reports containing patches should include the PATCH keyword in their
-keyword fields. If the patch adds to or changes the GTK+ programming
-interface, the API keyword should also be included.
+Bug reports containing patches that add to or change the GTK+ programming
+interface should include the API keyword in their keyword fields.
Patches should be in unified diff form. (The -u option to GNU diff.)
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